The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.